T-Mobile plays the Grinch this Christmas

While I was at Mobius 2004 in the beginning of December, my T-Mobile data access stopped working, but email was fine. I was using the $4.99 T-Zones plan with my devices and had access to all of the ports so I could use email, browse the web, and chat. I tried my Nokia 3650 and it worked fine through the wap browser, but not with Opera. After doing a bit more research, it seemed that T-Mobile finally shut down full GPRS access through T-Zones. You can still browse the web with a WAP browser and some folks have figured out how to use a proxy to get T-Zones working. I just decided to go back to the $20/month unlimited data plan since wireless data is important to me and it is still cheaper than other carriers. However, I just read on the TinyScreenfuls.com blog that BlackBerry users may have more serious issues with this network change since BlackBerry devices are setup for access through the WAP gateway and not internet2 or internet3 GPRS APNs. If you own a BlackBerry and use T-Mobile you may want to check out the details and demand that T-Mobile provision the devices to these full GPRS APNs. Thanks to Mobile Gadget News for the link.

USER COMMENTS 4 comment(s)

This is horrible.(2:00pm EST Mon Dec 27 2004)I just switched to tmobo for the $4.99 data! – by HH

Get More?(2:26pm EST Mon Dec 27 2004)Isn't that the T-Mobile catch phrase. Anyway, Get Less is more fitting. I don't know one can only wonder if Verizon will pull the plug too. – by Blinky

HH is screwed!(2:59pm EST Mon Dec 27 2004)Couple of weeks ago I had to upgrade from $10 T-Zones Pro to $20 Internet. If you want to evade T-Mobile's latest restrictions visit the T-Mobile USA Howardforums.com forum. – by Virtuous

It still works(3:17pm EST Wed May 04 2005)You just need to change/add proxy settings on your computer: